Covariant is an AI robotics company that develops foundation models and automation software to help warehouse and fulfillment-center robots generalize across manipulation tasks. Covariant's Twitter Score is 13 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #74,015 among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Covariant was co-founded by Pieter Abbeel, Peter Chen, Rocky Duan, and Tianhao Zhang. The company raised a total of $222 million across its Series C financing rounds, with an initial $80 million tranche announced in July 2021 and a further $75 million announced in April 2023, per the company's own disclosures. Among its products, Covariant launched RFM-1, a commercial Robotics Foundation Model designed to enable robots to handle a broad range of manipulation tasks.
Covariant is affiliated with Amazon through a non-exclusive licensing agreement announced in August 2024, under which Amazon gained access to Covariant's robotic foundation models. As part of that arrangement, co-founders Pieter Abbeel, Peter Chen, and Rocky Duan, along with roughly a quarter of Covariant's staff, joined Amazon's Fulfillment Technologies and Robotics team. Amazon did not describe the deal as an acquisition, and Covariant stated it would continue serving its existing customers and developing its technology independently.
Covariant has 11,620 followers as of October 2026 on X and has published 683 posts. The account has been mentioned by 31 accounts, with 93 total mentions.
Who follows Covariant on X?
The accounts that follow Covariant include 52 founders, 10 angel investors, 8 influencers and 5 VCs. Among them are Andrew Kang, Andrej Karpathy, Vance Spencer, Roon, Bill Gates and Jeff Dean.